What's the suggest RPM threshold yo shouldn't exceed after first starting your car?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Ref ......."screaming down the parkway in my MGB".

Yep, story time. My MGB was a screamer ....... or maybe it was the mother of my second child that was doing the screaming .......

About 8:00 PM on evening in Danville, CA, after a big meal (and that's another story), my pregnant wife (who was scheduled for a cesarean section in two weeks, decided to go into big time labor.

So, I tossed number one son to a neighbor and fired up my MGB to head for the hospital in Los Gatos (about 45 miles away) (mostly freeway).

With horn blaring and lights flashing, my MGB screamed out of Danville, down the freeway, all the way through San Jose ....... looking for a police escort ...... none to be found and slid sideways into the hospital parking lot.

While waiting in the waiting room, I calculated my average speed had been a tad over 105 MPH.

Later, while returning to Danville, my police escort found me ........ going 80 MPH on a 65MPH highway. Yep, he gave me a speeding ticket......the CHP are mean bastards ......

Yep, between my wife and the MG ...... there was a lot of screaming going on. I found out later, the baby had its umbilical cord wrapped around it neck ....... and wanted the hell outta there .....


THE END


humfrz

Oh you were talking literally screaming. I was looking at it more from the figurative perspective.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by steve99

MG B was before my time, is this one ?????

Handled like it was on rails(rollers)

Hum predates even that.

[Slammillionaire]

Blows my mind that the wheel was only invented 5.5k years ago tho

[bababooey]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

blows her mind her kid knows the password

[mazeroni]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I have a 2013 FR-S, MT with about 20,000 miles on it, with original transmission fluid.

Then, reaching in the car, I push the shift lever from neutral into first gear ..... using just three fingers.


humfrz

The bowling ball grip? 2 in the pink, 1 in the stink?

Eh, dunno. I'm a 52K now. Bought it at 26K.

It has always been like this.

Getting out of first has never been an issue. With some leverage, my index finger is good enough to knock it out of first - even cold. But going back into 1st? Maybe. Given the right conditions. But I couldn't tell you with any certainty what those conditions are.

I'll be stopped in traffic, then scoot up a few feet, then go back to neutral. Sit there > clutch in, then try to go into first and it feels like a lockout switch has activated. I'll go to 2nd, which feels okay at this moment (won't be confident it is in gear), then try 1st, and no go. Then, 20 seconds later, it'll just snick into gear with next to no effort.

At least I don't have any crunch or grind in any other gear. I have to take 5th slow to avoid the crunchy feeling, but that isn't much of an issue, in fact, my GTI had a worse 5th gear - totally vague and had a worse crunch, but that was a problem when I got it with 150 miles on the odo.

Maybe I am a worse manual driver than I thought.

Originally Posted by HKz

personally I have never had such an issue going into 2nd then 1st. maybe you are rushing the throw a little too quickly? the synchros don't like to be rushed when cold or else it feels kinda notchy/clunky

This is possible. Maybe I need to spend another 1 - 2 seconds on the clutch before trying? Although, its certainly not an issue where I'm hitting the synchros, because I know that feeling and sound - not pleasant. But it is so inconsistent, and when it does happen, I'm thinking more about the car on my ass behind me and the growing gap in front of me. It becomes more about getting it into gear than being patient

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by steve99

MG B was before my time, is this one ?????

Handled like it was on rails(rollers)

]

Yep, I was carving canyons in a sports car while many of you folks were still driving torque rich muscle cars ...... adding carburetors, winding up springs, blowing clutches, making a big deal out of getting second gear rubber and seeing how fast you could move a car through a straight quarter mile .......


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Yep, I was carving canyons in a sports car while many of you folks were still driving torque rich muscle cars ...... adding carburetors, winding up springs, blowing clutches, making a big deal out of getting second gear rubber and seeing how fast you could move a car through a straight quarter mile .......


humfrz

In other words... me.


I did have the Karmann Ghia in between a couple of those muscle cars though.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

OK, @Ultramaroon ........ ......that's for starting this whole 3 finger thing!

OK,OK, ...... I SHOULD have said ...... "two fingers and a thumb" .......


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

OK, @Ultramaroon ........ ......that's for starting this whole 3 finger thing!

OK,OK, ...... I SHOULD have said ...... "two fingers and a thumb" .......


humfrz

Hey! What is wrong with just 3 fingers?

[bcj]

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

In other words... me.


I did have the Karmann Ghia in between a couple of those muscle cars though.

Welp, if the progressive linkage, the clutch shatter shields, the traction masters, the electronic ignition, the hurst shifter and the locked up differential fits ........ you drove it ........


humfrz

PS ...... the glorified VW bug didn't really qualify ......

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

PS ...... the glorified VW bug didn't really qualify ......

Meh, it passes the Duck Test in my books.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

OK, @Ultramaroon ........ ......that's for starting this whole 3 finger thing!

OK,OK, ...... I SHOULD have said ...... "two fingers and a thumb" .......


humfrz

Haha... Totally worth it.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by mazeroni

Eh, dunno. I'm a 52K now. Bought it at 26K.

It has always been like this.

Getting out of first has never been an issue. With some leverage, my index finger is good enough to knock it out of first - even cold. But going back into 1st? Maybe. Given the right conditions. But I couldn't tell you with any certainty what those conditions are.

I'll be stopped in traffic, then scoot up a few feet, then go back to neutral. Sit there > clutch in, then try to go into first and it feels like a lockout switch has activated. I'll go to 2nd, which feels okay at this moment (won't be confident it is in gear), then try 1st, and no go. Then, 20 seconds later, it'll just snick into gear with next to no effort.

At least I don't have any crunch or grind in any other gear. I have to take 5th slow to avoid the crunchy feeling, but that isn't much of an issue, in fact, my GTI had a worse 5th gear - totally vague and had a worse crunch, but that was a problem when I got it with 150 miles on the odo.

Maybe I am a worse manual driver than I thought.



This is possible. Maybe I need to spend another 1 - 2 seconds on the clutch before trying? Although, its certainly not an issue where I'm hitting the synchros, because I know that feeling and sound - not pleasant. But it is so inconsistent, and when it does happen, I'm thinking more about the car on my ass behind me and the growing gap in front of me. It becomes more about getting it into gear than being patient

Well, mazeroni, like many others have suggested, you might try switching to a slippery transmission fluid ......


humfrz